Posted on 08/03/2005 10:16:37 PM PDT by jmc1969
Football coaches have a tendency to spout war cliches to their players. After a year of deliberation and research, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones is now using football to describe the war in Iraq.
The way Jones, R-N.C., sees it, the war in Iraq is being fought without a playbook and no clear path into the end zone. That's why, in June, Jones proposed a resolution calling for President Bush to establish a plan for withdrawing American forces from Iraq.
"All we are asking for is that the president develop a strategy for the fourth quarter," Jones said Wednesday after speaking at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville. "I have spent over a year evolving to this position: If you don't have a fourth-quarter strategy, then you aren't going to win the game.
"We are not asking the president to have a fourth-quarter strategy for certain. But what is victory? We've got to have victory, but let us get a better understanding of what victory is."
"It's been a long time since I've made a snap decision. If I had known then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have voted for the resolution (for war)."
A number of Jones' constituents, many of whom are veterans, have criticized him for the resolution, saying that it will only embolden the enemy and send a message that we don't support the troops.
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Don't we imprison people for letting the enemy know such things as troop movements? Now this tool wants to broadcast it on Al Jazeera, and assist the terrorists in Iraq in planning for their future actions?
Oh yeah the play book only works until you see what the other team does. Theb you change it again and again and again. What other war have we fought were cowards blow people up with car bombs? Nam they wired up kids was there a good plan for that?
Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."
No doubt.
Some points to keep in mind though. We are having to relearn how to fight. This is the first "war" since Nam.
Alot of the fighters in Iraq have brought skills over from Chechnya and Afghanistan.
That said, the only way to be good at war is to conduct it. At least we are getting some experience while China watches.
Maybe Jones needs to read the very insightful piece in Monday's Wall Street Journal by the US ambassador to Iraq outlining in a very comprehensive and confidence-building way the US "game plan" on Iraq. It's easy enough to spout the media line on Iraq, and thus become their darling, rather than having to actually read something in the only honest newspaper left in the US, the Wall Street Journal, which lays out in very specific terms what the US policy going forward in Iraq is.
It is typical of the weak and viscerally minded to "go all wobbly" when the news is bad in Iraq, like the tragedy of 20 dead Marines. But let's not let that obscure the progress being made there or what has been spelled out over and over as to "what our game plan is."
I get the impression that Freedom Fry played a little too much football without a helmet in his youth.
Must not have the double secret playbook.
Here's a football question for ya, Jonesy. Would you punt when you are on your opponent's 30 yard line?
I think there is a Presidential Directive 642 which says, "Don't show Jonesy the playbook."
They need some long bombs in the offense.
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